From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 16:10:36 +0100 Subject: RMK closing tree to patches *this* weekend In-Reply-To: References: <20100513230201.GA26822@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100517090310.GE23118@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20100517151036.GE29422@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:04:53AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > I don't mind not seeing it in your tree for your initial batch to > Linus as long as I know you'll accept it sometimes for this merge window. The other thing to point out is that the merge windows are now much more unpredictable. The last merge window was 12 days long, rather than the usual 14. With Linus' statement about the two week window being too predictable, I would not be surprised if this merge window was about 7 days instead. What this means overall is that it becomes much harder to sanely plan stuff either for the lead up to the merge window, or during the merge window itself. Therefore, this "initial batch" is most likely to become "only batch" since it's no longer possible to be reasonably ensure that there will be a merge window open in the second week.